Word: curtain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...break Europe's future. One of the optimists is Otto von Habsburg, onetime heir to the late Austro-Hungarian Empire and now a full-time promoter of European unity. "When I was a boy," he says, "the Rhine River represented a dividing line even greater than the Iron Curtain today. That has already gone." The former Archduke believes that Britain will be "a tremendous new impulse." Beyond that, he says, what is really needed are some "jolts to move this continent along," such as the removal of the American military shield. "It seems absurd to have 220 million Americans...
...attempt to break into the movies, in desperation reveals the details of two previous nervous breakdowns. She then goes through her old dance routine ("Hollywood and Vine" is the name of the song) to her husband's embarrassed outrage ("If you can't act civilized, go somewhere else"). The curtain falls as Celia so bs silently and the two men ignore her in talk of Mickey Mantle's bleeding legs...
Outside the Mark Hellinger, police patrolled the sidewalk at curtain time on opening night while pickets marched in protest. Queues of buses continue to disgorge paying customers who have bought seats in blocks: suburban klatsches of all sorts, whole schoolfuls of children, and Protestant, Catholic and Jewish lay groups, many of whom have heard Jesus Christ Superstar on records at church or temple. Simultaneously, religious groups, often from the same denominations as those flocking inside, proclaim outrage at the show and lament that it does not include Jesus' Resurrection. YOU'VE GOT YOUR STORY TWISTED! JESUS is THE LORD...
...show opens, a fortress-like curtain wall leans dramatically backward to form a sharply raked stage, bodies clinging to it as to the sides of a sinking ship. When Pontius Pilate appears, it is through a doorway modeled after the head of Caesar. As it telescopes open, bearing a throbbing resemblance to an Excedrin ad, it reveals six sets of eyes. The high priests descend on a bone bridge that looks as if it had been left over from one of Alley Oop's dinosaurs. During Christ's prayers to God in Gethsemane, a universe box is lowered over...
...Webber's music never stops?a rarity for Broadway musicals. The musical score has been criticized for being something less, or more, than rock. It is, in fact, an elegant pastiche, swiftly paced and highly styled, that does not sound like show music but has something for everybody: a curtain-raising blues number to loosen up the audience, a winsome torch song sung to the sleeping Jesus by an awed Mary Magdalene, and a campy Charleston-like piece that allows King Herod, outrageously turned out as a transvestite, to make fun of Jesus: "Prove to me that...